Channeling Forrest

How to get enough exercise -- when the weather is unusually cold for January, often with a harsh wind off the Hudson, when I'm on jury duty, when I've got a lifelong aversion to treadmills. And then the solution hit yesterday. Run everywhere. Get the exercise blocks at a time to add up at the end of the day instead of trying to wedge in a chunk of time to do it.

And so that is what I have done for the last two days. Yesterday from the apartment to the subway, from the Chambers Street station to the courthouse and back at the end of the day, to and from the sandwich shop during court lunch recess, and then -- getting into it -- taking the express as far as 96th at the end of the court day and running the rest of the way home. Today again to the subway station, from 79th to the museum, to the post office after the info desk shift, from the museum to Chess and Checkers in the Park to pick up the survey materials, from C and C to the 66th Street station.

In any other place it might be a sight, a backpacker in street clothes running the sidewalks, in NYC, hey, it's New York. It will probably end with today because tomorrow we are due for 2-5 inches of snow, sure treachery, not to mention too wet for tennis shoes. But here's what I found out channeling Forrest -- pretty quickly it feels like anytime you step out of the apartment you should be running, not walking.